Foss Force: “KubeEdge Gets Its Diploma and Graduates at CNCF”
October 15, 2024
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has another project that’s hanging its diploma on the wall. It’s taken a while, but this morning it was announced that KubeEdge, CNCF’s Kubernetes-based framework for bringing containers to the edge,...
InfoWorld: “How do we fund open source?”
October 14, 2024
The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s true that many...
The New Stack: “CNCF Artifact Hub, a One-Stop Shop for Cloud Native Config”
September 23, 2024
Searching for the latest Argo templates, Backstage plugins, Container images, or CoreDNS plugins? How about Falco rules, Headlamp plugins, or Helm charts?
TechZine: “Linux Foundation and CNCF continue their fight against ‘patent trolls’”
September 23, 2024
The Linux Foundation is deepening its existing partnership with Unified Patents, a membership organization that assists companies in battles against ‘patent trolls’. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is now a full partner in this collaboration....
Cloud Native Now: “Linux Foundation & CNCF Target ‘Patent Troll’ Non-Practicing Entities”
September 20, 2024
Eminently familiar friends, the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have expanded a partnership initiative with Unified Patents to defend open-source software against Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs).
The Register: “Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls”
September 18, 2024
Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields over such efforts. The polite term for patent trolls...
Ars Technica: “Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress”
September 18, 2024
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider two bills Thursday that would effectively nullify the Supreme Court’s rulings against patents on broad software processes and human genes. Open source and Internet freedom advocates are mobilizing...
Economist Impact: “Open sourcing the AI revolution”
September 18, 2024
This Economist Impact report, sponsored by Meta, explores how open-source approaches are shaping the AI revolution and their strengths and limitations. Drawing from interviews with experts at the Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Grammarly and the...
Heise: “Open Source Summit: How projects defend themselves against patent trolls”
September 17, 2024
Patent trolls also threaten open source projects. Together with Unified Patents, members of the Linux Foundation and CNCF now receive many protective measures.
Forbes: “Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software”
September 16, 2024
Authorization is irksome. For a start, the Brits spell licensing as licencing… and a great number of people mispronounce the word patent as “pay-tunt”, when of course it should be “pah-tent”, whichever side of the pond...